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[–] Kbibble@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Or abandon the political labeling system entirely and make it socially outdated by learning to confront someone labeling themselves by responding to them with something along the lines of: "Why would you allow someone else to tell you what it is you believe in? You don't get to decide what being a conservative/liberal means. Someone else decides that. You aren't part of it. So why would you let whoever that is tell you what you should think?"

Change the meaning of what it means to even use the labels and the weapon of using the labels to divide us no longer functions.

It has been dismantled, and they will have to come up with something else.

And just because they will eventually invent a new weapon, does not make it pointless. This is just the never ending metaphorical arms race we are all living in, but it gets easier once you see it for what it is.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Because the labels are used for a shortcut to understanding. I really don’t want to spend ten minutes laying the ground work to have a discussion only to find out i am talking to a neocon.

Seems like a waste of time.

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[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 5 points 4 months ago

It is gonna be very hard unbrainwash everyone. I was even taught that shit in school, so one dimensional

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

there are enough idiots in this world for this to actually work

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's what I'm doing for a long time now, but I just learned about the Overton Window haha.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

Top tier username btw

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Oh goody. Someone who finally gets it.

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 4 points 4 months ago

I mean that is literally how it shifted so hard to the right lol

[–] greenhorn@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've noticed women on bumble do this. Put moderate as their political affiliation, and list black lives matter and LGBTQ+ and such as their causes. Before this post I would think "elected moderates aren't doing anything for your causes at best," but my perspective as I swipe left on them anyway is a little different now

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[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is kind of how I try to describe cooperatives to some people. It works if you think of freedom and autonomy as conservative ideas which cooperatives bring without central planning socialism, while still being socialist. Also been pleading my leftist circles for years to try to appeal to a wider audience in a similar way. If only we recognize that we've all been lied to and propagandized to believe in capitalism, speaking in a way the "right" can get on board with would only help them start listening to reasonable solutions.

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